American democracy escaped death by the skin of its teeth on 6 January.

When he was revving up his crowd, Trump promised to go with the rioters to the Capitol.

He didn't go. He wimped out - and thank god he did. I suspect if that crowd of white supremacists had had a leader who was not a coward, the scenes would have been much bloodier and martial law would have been declared.

And most of the legislators would have been dead.